[Fedora-packaging] README.Dist is preferrable to README.Fedora

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sat Oct 25 19:02:25 UTC 2008


On Saturday 25 October 2008, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:42 +0200
> Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
> > I really appreciate the general idea, but I don't like the term
> > ".Dist" to much, as it is a bit misleading imho: some people might
> > think that file might contain "informations relevant for distribution
> > of the package".
> >
> > I thought about a alternative, but all my mind came up with was
> > "distribution-specific-notes" -- that has the same problem as noted
> > above, but it's imho not that worse. But that filename is quite
> > long :-/
> >
> > Maybe somebody else comes up with something that is shorter and more
> > accurate...
>
> I tend to use "README.RPM" or some variant thereof (e.g.
> README-SELinux.RPM).

.RPM sounds a bit like it could be a rpm package whose name is README.  I've 
usually used README.package myself.




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